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and<br />

E ( Y ) = AM where<br />

⎡λ1<br />

⎤<br />

⎢ ⎥<br />

⎢<br />

λ2<br />

M = ⎥ .<br />

⎢ ... ⎥<br />

⎢ ⎥<br />

⎣λ t ⎦<br />

Details <strong>of</strong> the pro<strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong> the unconditional variance <strong>of</strong> vector Y are given in Karlis and<br />

Meligkotsidou (2006). A brief description <strong>of</strong> the <strong>multivariate</strong> Poisson-log normal<br />

distribution is given in the next section, and these <strong>models</strong> were compared with the finite<br />

mixture <strong>models</strong> in section 7.5.<br />

7.4 Multivariate Poisson-log Normal distribution<br />

The <strong>multivariate</strong> Poisson-log normal distribution (Aitchison and Ho, 1989) is a natural<br />

extension <strong>of</strong> the univariate Poisson-log normal distribution. Here the mixing <strong>of</strong> d<br />

independent Poisson distributions Po( λ i<br />

) is achieved by placing a d-dimensional<br />

lognormal distribution on the d-dimensional vector λ . The <strong>multivariate</strong> Poisson-log<br />

normal distribution supports negative and positive correlation between the count<br />

variables.<br />

7.4.1 Definition and the properties<br />

Let g( λ | µ , Σ)<br />

denote the probability density function <strong>of</strong> the d-dimensional log normal<br />

distribution Λ d ( µ , Σ)<br />

, so that<br />

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